The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-04-29

dreamy dialect of romance or changing sum-
and merciess logic, It's dry dead cause and
effect, without fiction or sentiment, without
caprice or impulse. In an atmosphere az cold
as that of the Alps, Il holds its eternal SOW
reignity. Religion, law and trade have i
woven into the web of their influence ana
worth, and u universal sense of Justice per-
vades all rational minds Without IL there
That city Is great aud prosperous, Its busy
asles not sparkling with empty gaIties, but
roaring with the clangor of work, Its walls
covered with the blazing signs of trade. It's
great heart beats kept steady, Its streets free
of barricadc. and Its citizens of riot is due To
that universal sense of justice which is all
prevalent and u source of incalcuable pro-
lection and power. But practically no one |
I'm his dealings with his fellows, can afford al |
ways to be Just, or to exact Justice I'm return |
IL ~ sometimes better to forgive u debt than |
tn demand IT, This kindness and forbearance |
which men exercise toward each other contri- |
butte more than riches to good fortune and hu. |
man happiness. After all that u man Is aliveand |
has food to eat aud clothes to wear is due I'm
the greatest measure to himself. There Is no
man living who has Il not In his power To ruin
friends, all gone, himself aoat, life dismal sea,
kissed out Of the cradle into life and sunshine,
and driven out Of the world In iIlfamy and shame
ut last. What could ssve him? Not tears, not
prayers, not entreaties. Around his neck was
hung the Invisible mill stone. He knew IL. 1t
was his duty To get free of IL, to assert his man
hood To fight his way clear. to conquer Then
dies the earth will Seem dark as Calvary, and
tine woflu VIII pe ms hourliefs nut man or
woman VINO nitNiiis pecohie apthuouea ahu ne
PRAYED Is making an honest and persistent effort
To reform should he AN object OF the tenderest
human sympathy. Ihey never lau u irleiid IL
they ma themselves deserteu then. Every COLI
sideration of charity, reason and common sense
demands IL there he any virtue In human love IL
shhli pe niie'i einPoyea 70 heiP ehcouraee anu
save. The weak ana treinllious nerves, the
WEAKNESS Of sell watching, the sense oil lOneli-
hess ana despair tntt oVerhangiike pail, must
never Tor n moment defeat the hrln resolve, the
great ana earnest purpose Oh ms soul III his Will
be made oil OAK and iron, selfconfldent and
brave he can meet ettch advancing wave without
dismay, ana II death Itself shall iind him at the
front away down IN the teeth oil the enemy, ana
ut his post of duty still, then this, and this
alone, Is victory this Is REFORM Alter all, 1t IL
impossible To oblterate all good from the human
without a jewel. The inroads that vice makes
upon the human character, blight only the bios.
SONS and the yerdnre; IL can never destroy that
principle oil growth, That dlYiile warmth which
underlies the whole, and which stimulates 80
| many good and noble acts. even la the lives Of
the most depraved The worlds censure Is al
ways severe, and never allow much to individual
| virtues.
Rumqr catches from ear to ear, and stalks
| about from house to house, and cruelty him"
never fell from the lips of "a Jewish rabble more
earnestly than IL is heard to day Where is the
| worlds charity? He who hath need Of it will
| tell you, almost nowhere excepting in u few tell
der and susceptible hearts. What need is there
then OF institutions and orders, where men shall
be explicitly taught not to condemn without
| hearing. Having been chilled through and through
| with pitiless frosts and storms, and when in
search of warmth and blessing finding them
| selves so often standing with outstretched hands
| over n tireless and broken crate, what wonder
then that men seek out retreats removed from
private enmity and public clamor, where reason
able friendship and actual charity are both prac-
| ticed and taught. as governing principles of hu-
man life But the most direct and perhaps the
| most Dpnpticlpnt Order consists
| the attention it bestows upon the sick and af-
| hicted. With strong nerves and good health,
| every man in the midst of misfortune must, in a
sense, he his own philosopher Let him seek all
| the help and comfort outside he can, but the ter
| rible shadows % his own atfctiOns are constant
ly with him. and il is he after all who must look
for the sunlight: another cannot see IL for him
But when disease begins to creep along the
nerves, and the eye becomes lustrous and unnat
ural with fever and pain, when business becomes
irksome, and nights Of painful unrest wear
drearily away, and when at length the
last thread that keeps the bewildered
spirit from taking its flight seems
almost broken, then is this the end of philoso
ply, and relief II any there be must come from
the hands OF love and affection, without hesita
recovering from the delirium Of sickness among
strangers i'll IA strange land has found a brother
of the golden chain devotedly watching by his
side, hailing with Joy the first symptoms Of re
turning health, and softening his fearful trial,
with words of sympathy and cheer.
; But in n short address like this cannot speal
oil all claims To or all IL
has done.
One thing, it never undertakes to do any NOR,
/, than it can. 1t cultivates few primal virtues
an intense belief in a few things rather than
skeptcal adherence to many. The pure anC
simple faith that was taught in Judea, has beer
mystited with many dogmas. The Christian
Church has drifted away from its ancient moor
J ings, and Is still dragging its anchors. TIL,
! Christian world if now more blithsome and un
concerned than then, Is less happy and less safe
The belief In Deity and the Immortality of tn
is 5
| | step from bewilderment to despair. Our Order
at least within the circle OF its own influence, in
. tends to counteract the shock OF these unhapp,
! tendencies. 1t teaches the immortality Of tn,
soul not from books, not with logic, and no
, with revelation but by building up so immens,
. IA frame work OF human love and such grand
| and great impulses that time can never contain
them all. By intoxicating in human hopes s,
vast growth and by eXacting such promise
from heaven ITSELF and through the diyin
prophecy OF causes whose results are nowher
, II not in eternity, by this philosophy OF Twin
! heart beats Odd Fellowship outstrips the SLOW
pace oil the schools, and oVerleaps and bars tn
: gates of death against the human SOUL If thi
, be not so what means this great deception, wht
suffers man upon the testimony Of witnesses 81
: false to build up hopes and create friendships
then bury Them all with MIN forever, III the dea'
! and Voceess grave, out OF which he shall N
, more come TO publish the awful fraud
: Inc object OF this meeting Is to dedicate thi
: nal 10 the purpose Tor which 1t was designed
An oud Fellows Lodge Is IN the nature OF a lam
: n.y. ana the Lodge Room Is the home. Thes
walls VIII become more than classic with ances
tral rignts, ana WITH the rehearsal OF grand an
y Soienii ltailes winch are destined TO noat, Tx
!, sweet reiriiins down the ages: This secret DOM
CHE whose ROOF Is the fioor oil heaven, and who's
ihNlslDie Willis reach beyond the stars. IL conSe
Grated III more senses IMAM one TO the cause 9
, saving inei rom social ana moral death, ana II
! general TO healing blessing and comforting tn
human race
: Let us dedlcate thls nan theh TO It's sacred Of
noes Oh ihcuicatliig u greater confidence In huma
7 nature; oil STRENGTHENING the bonds OF huma
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